Peanut-vending case



(No Model.)

0.0.L'UOE PEANUT VENDING CASE.

No, 604,994. Patented May 31, 1898.

UNITED STATES PATENT- ()FFICE.

CLARENCE O. LUOE, OF PLAINFIELD, WISCONSIN.

PEANUT-VEN DING CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,994, dated May 31,1898.

Application filed August 6, 1897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE 0. Loan, a citizen of the United States,residing at Plainfield, in the county of Waushara and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Peanut-V e ndi ng Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvementsin; that class of deviceswhich areused for holding and displaying peanuts and supplying them to purchaserswhile warm; and it consists in certain novel features'hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

' In the annexed drawings, which fully illustrate my invention, Figure 1is a perspective View of a case constructed in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same; and Fig. 3is a horizon: tal section thereof on the line a; m, Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, particularly by letter, A designates a casehaving transparent sides and front and having an open top which isclosed by a door fittedthereiu, The back of the case isnot as long asthe sides and front, leaving anopen space 0 near the bottom. Extendingtoward the front of the:

" case from the edges of the openingare par v titions D, whiohconverg'e,so as to form a smaller space E, through which the peanuts may be drawn.The case thus constructed fits snugly on a heater F, having a door G in-its rear side, through which a lamp or oilstove H may be admitted.

Serial No. 647,334. on; model.)

The device is very simple in its construction, and its advantages arethought to be obvious. The peanuts are placed in the case through thetop ofthe same and fall by gravity, so as to fill the spaces between thefront and sides and the partitions, thus hiding said partitions andcovering the small opening. Some of the peanuts will fall upon the ironbottom of the case, and will consequently be warmed by the; lamp oroil-stove below the same. These warmed nuts will of course be withdrawnto supply a customer, and their place will be taken by other nuts fromabove, thus always furnishing warm nuts to the purchaser.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

A peanut-vending case consisting of a casing having transparent frontand sides and an open top, a door fitted in said top, a back terminatingabove the bottom,converging partitions extending from the back towardthe front and terminating a short distance from the front, a heaterfitted snugly to the bottom of the case and having a door in its rearside to admit an oil-stove or lamp.

In testimony whereof Iflhereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

CLARENCE O. LUOE. Witnesses:

W. H. FIELDS, O. A. OURRI'ER.

